I’m in a bit of a pickle, I started talking to a potential cofounder about building an application that used the code I wrote for a work automation tool to help address a problem in his industry.

However after I started to work on the app and building out different use cases, he cancelled our last check in call and then went AWOL for the last 2 weeks.

Since then I’ve changed the scope and approach I was going to take originally to better serve a wider market (so that the app isn’t focused on just his single use case). I’ve realized I need a technical cofounder that can really lead the dev work (neither he nor I have a background in software development, I’m good at data science/python but can’t build it out properly.

How do I go about telling the original potential cofounder that I’ve moved on from the original concept, and that we should both look for new cofounders?